Grigor Parlichev

Grigor Stawrew Parlitschew (also Pârlichev, Bulgarian Григор Ставрев Пърличев, macedonian Григор Ставрев Прличев ( Grigor Stavrev Prličev ); born January 18, 1830 in Ohrid, Ottoman Empire, now in Macedonia, † January 25, 1893 ) was a Bulgarian writer.

Life

Parlitschew attended a Greek -language school in Macedonia. In the 1850s he worked in Tirana, Prilep and Ohrid as a teacher. In 1858 he began to study medicine in Athens, but then changed to the linguistic faculty.

In 1860 he won with his ballad O Armatolos ( Ο Αρματωλός, Bulgarian Serdar ), written in the Greek language, the first prize at the annual poetry competition in the Greek capital. From now on Parlitschew was considered the second homer of the Greek language and was subsequently grants for the universities of Oxford and Berlin offered. But he did not go to Western Europe.

Since 1862, Parlitschew engaged in the fight against the Greek-speaking churches and schools in the still Ottoman Macedonia. For a stay in Constantinople Opel he had become familiar in the local libraries with the Old Bulgarian literary language and literature.

In 1868 he came for his commitment to several months in prison, because he had been displayed by the Greek bishop of Ohrid as a troublemaker. 1870 translated Parlitschew his ballad Serdar in his native language, was. Since that time, he wrote and published only works in his native language. As the first he translated Homer's Iliad; the dialect and style of his transfer, however, is variously sharp by Bulgarian writers and poets (such as Hristo Botev ) been criticized because he has used the Ohrid dialect and not the literary Bulgarian high-level language.

He was then, however, continue as a teacher, not only in Macedonia on the way, including in Struga, Gabrovo ( today Bulgaria), Bitola and Thessaloniki. Shortly Parlitschew worked in the National Library of newly established to Sofia. In Thessaloniki 1885 he wrote his autobiography.

Parlitschew had two children: the son Kiril Parlitschew, who worked in the IMRO, and a daughter. He is now considered by Bulgarians as Macedonians as a member of the relevant people.

Works

• Сердарят ( Serdar )
• Скендербей ( Skanderbeg )
• Чувай ся себе си, 1866
• Възпитание или дванадесет песни за деца (education or Twelve Songs for Children)
• Автобиография, 1885 ( autobiography)
• Кратка славянска граматика ( Short Slavic grammar)